First, Jason covers the kickoff of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud trial (1:48). Then, Blokable Co-CEO & Co-Founder Aaron Holm joins (16:37) to discuss solving the housing crisis, the Phoenix…
CCP closes foreign IPO loophole + Audius’ Roneil Rumburg: decentralized project crash course | E1273
First Jason covers the CCP banning US IPOs for big tech companies, closing the VIE loophole (1:50), then Audius Co-Founder Roneil Rumburg joins (18:44) to talk about his “decentralized SoundCloud,”…
In the news segment, Jason covers unicorn SaaS Startup called HeadSpin has been accused of a massive fraud by the SEC and DOJ (2:06), and Pacaso real estate startup offering…
In today’s news show, Jason covers OnlyFans being back to business as usual (1:31), the stablecoin Circle cleaning up commercial paper from their USDC reserves (16:49), and does a break…
In this news episode Jason covers Facebook finally revealing their Q1 transparency report after they originally shelved the report for PR purposes (2:08), Tyga deleting his OnlyFans account and announcing…
Jason breaks down the OnlyFans’ pivot away from sexual conduct (1:54), then he covers all the robot highlights from this week, Boston Dynamics robots doing backflips (23:34), Disney creating AI…
Robinhood earnings breakdown, Amazon launching department stores + Mark Suster deep dives VC | E1268
Jason breaks down the 2 metrics he uses to to assess Robinhood’s Q2 earnings (1:43) and Amazon entering Department Store retail (16:39). Then, Mark Suster from Upfront Ventures joins (24:07)…
Jason opens the show with a brief recap of “Noodlegate” and the end of cancel culture (2:09). Then he chats with OpenGov CEO Zac Bookman for the latest installment of…
Podcasting from Italy after a 2-week break of news, Jason covers Casey Newton’s failed dunk on Superhuman’s $75M raise (2:58), the privacy implications of Apple’s approach to preventing child porn…
Steve Martocci, the CEO of Splice (also co-founder of Blade & previously sold GroupMe to Skype) joins for our Next Unicorns series to discuss how music rights work (10:07), growing…
Jason discusses how founders can secure follow on funding (1:57), then is joined by investor Zach Coelius to answer listener questions on technical co-founders (38:21), successful founder traits (40:41), founder…
Jason does a Founder University segment on how to generate startup ideas (1:55), then Zach Coelius joins to take some “Ask an Angel” questions: what data points are most valuable…
Nick Kokonas joins to discuss his his company Tock (10:50), his world-class restaurant group Alinea (0:54), how restaurants can improve their operating leverage (18:05), digital experiences augmenting hospitality (39:41), why…
Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman joins to discuss the current U.S. housing situation (05:05), homebuilding rates, San Francisco (23:43), remote work (28:22), generational work-life balance differences (35:24), Redfin’s approach to real…
In a Founder University segment, Jason compares running a bootstrapped vs. venture-backed company (1:17), discusses ‘pegasus’ companies (11:09), advises what types of businesses should take VC (23:59), and explains what…
Fitbod CEO Allen Chen joins to discuss how they got funded & why they haven’t deployed their capital (01:06), the importance of being user-centric when building a consumer app (17:44),…
Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal from Acquired join to discuss David’s new venture fund Kindergarten Ventures (00:56), how to structure a VC fund (12:16), Jason’s super pro-rata strategy (30:17), podcasting…